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[Irony mode on] - This new platform is fantastic! [Irony mode off]
So here we are with the new patform...
(1) All my links to 20Six images are busted. I'm just glad I started using Zoto recently for all my pictures. I am REALLY not looking forward to wading through over 1000 entries to try and fix them all. Given that the changeover has been delayed for so long, you'd have thought they'd have managed to come up with a way of converting the image links... This is a real killer.
(2) Half my favourites disappeared, or jumbled up. Still, I'd saved them in an entry, and have put them in my 'Sidebar Heading' in the layout -> Pro section, then deleted the actual links that 20Six carried over, so that's not really the end of the world...
(3) I managed to run Bubb's backup tool before the upgrade, so I at least have a backup of the old blog... but can't do anything with it yet.
(4) I'm loving the smatterings of German and French around this thoroughly translated place. I mean, they've only had 6 months...
(5) Wait a moment - Raw HTML entry posting? What the...*
(6) I particularly like the way my blog keeps disappearing, then reappearing again. I've had 10 blog not founds already this morning... and then it won't let me log back on. Super.
(7) I can't imagine I'll be staying around here for very long, particularly seeing as all the community based aspects that made 20Six so great, have... well... gone (hello? COMMENT TRACKING? Good grief...).
(8) Platform27 here we come...
...sigh... * Oh wait, I just found the non-HTML entry editor. It's in Your Data -> Javascript editor need's ticking...
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Farewell 'old' 20Six...
... it's been nice 'n' all that.
I'm trying not to bee TOO pessimistic, but I'm really not looking forward to this new platform, what with losing comment tracking, and RSS feeds and whatnot. 20Six was a nice self-contained community-ma-flip... and it would be a shame to lose all of that. And I really don't want to have to re-do all my old picture links... But there's no use crying over the gate after the gift horse has counted all it's eggs in the bush. Or something.
But on the positive side, if we have a new stable base platform, that is the same across all the 20Sixes across Europe, then they can then hopefully start to add back in some of the features we're losing. Of course, that raises the point that we already had these features across all of 20Six before they decided to switch platforms, but that's another thing entirely.
"Just in case", I've done a full backup of my blog today using Bubb's wondrous backup tool...
So all that's left for me to do here, before blogs start crashing out of the night sky, is to post all of my current Favourites and Links... You know, just so's I can pick em up later.
Take care fellow bloggers, it's been good here hasn't it...
Ling. X
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Succour for Packaging
Call me anal ("ANAL!"), but one thing that really bugs me is lazy packaging design...
Take for example, DVD's. They may go to town on fancy cardboard sleeves or flashing lights on the outside, but open the box, and more often than not you get something like this...
Example (1)
Ver' lazy indeed. LAZY LAZY LAZY.
Surely they can do better than that....
Example (2)
Not bad, not bad, at least there's a picture on this... but wait a minute - that's just the front of the box duplicated onto the disc. LAZY.
Example (3)
OK, that's a little better - at least some effort has been put into this one, it's a key scene from the film, which will mean nothing to you if you haven't seen it. Pretty brave there, but you've still got the great big film logo and 'above the title' star name, though.
What if we took it to the next level, and made the DVD's themselves part of the packaging... you know, put a picture from the film on the inside of the box, and also across the DVD's themselves?
Example (4)
Nice! (Not to mention this was my bargain of the year for £2.84 from Tesco)
But that's not the TRUE pinnacle of DVD disc design.
What about taking a key scene from the film, that happens to involve a round object, actually design the DVD to LOOK like that round object, and to be so confident in your design that you don't even get the film's name ruining your perfect design...
Example (5)
Now THAT's the way to do it... I'll name that film in one...
(OK OK, it doesn't say 'Kobayashi' on the base of the cup, but you can't have everything)
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Somebody help me...
In twenty minutes I'm leaving the house, with the kids in tow.
The joy that is 'School Holiday' means that is falls upon me to entertain the two of them. Not only that, but I have promised to take them wherever they want to go today.
Just the very thought of what I am about to do chills me to the bone.
Yes, I am taking my kids to see... Disney's "The Wild".
*shudder*
Still... at least I have a few episodes of Stargate SG1 on my iPod to pass the time.
Yesterday, we travelled a hundred miles to take them here*:-
and it ended like this**:-
Wish me luck.
* The Deep in Hull
** OK, this photo was taken after he fell over, not as a result of the day out, but why let the facts ruin a good blog post?
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Oh knickers.
Work's internet filter has finally cottoned on to 20Six...
SO I guess that means no more 9-5 blogging pour moi.
 "Arse"
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Three...
Just heard the news from E3... PS3 launches in the UK on 17 November, with a choice of 20Gb or 60Gb hard drive, for 499 and 599 Euros, respectively.
Er... That works out at £340 and £410... Crumbs...
Compared to £250 for the Xbox360, and a predicted £150 for the Nintendo Wii... That's a HUGE wad of cash, but I suppose you are getting a fancy Blu-Ray disc player as well...
*starts saving*
Still, at least they've done away with that odd-looking boomerang controller...
They've basically taken the existing one and made it wireless (like the Xbox360)...
Changed the triggers to be analogue (like the Xbox360)...
And added motion sensors... (like the Nintendo Wii).
Originality rules! It's just dang expensive!
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Sideboy Steamways
Saw a couple of films over the weekend that I'd been meaning to see for ages...
 
And they were both really REALLY good.
Nuff said.
Oh, and I jetwashed the garden too.
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